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In mathematics, the complex conjugate of a complex number is the number with an equal real part and an imaginary part equal in magnitude but opposite in sign. That is, if a {\displaystyle a} and b {\displaystyle b} are real numbers, then the complex conjugate of a + b i {\displaystyle a+bi} is a − b i . {\displaystyle a-bi.}
The letter stands for a vector in , is a complex number, and ¯ denotes the complex conjugate of . [1] More concretely, the complex conjugate vector space is the same underlying real vector space (same set of points, same vector addition and real scalar multiplication) with the conjugate linear complex structure J {\displaystyle J} (different ...
A complex number is real if and only if it equals its own conjugate. The unary operation of taking the complex conjugate of a complex number cannot be expressed by applying only their basic operations addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Argument φ and modulus r locate a point in the complex plane.
Since the two factors found by this method are complex conjugates, we can use this in reverse as a method of multiplying a complex number to get a real number. This is used to get real denominators in complex fractions.
The conjugate transpose, therefore, arises very naturally as the result of simply transposing such a matrix—when viewed back again as an matrix made up of complex numbers. For an explanation of the notation used here, we begin by representing complex numbers e i θ {\displaystyle e^{i\theta }} as the rotation matrix, that is,
The Hermitian conjugate of the Hermitian conjugate of anything (linear operators, bras, kets, numbers) is itself—i.e., (†) † =. Given any combination of complex numbers, bras, kets, inner products, outer products, and/or linear operators, written in bra–ket notation, its Hermitian conjugate can be computed by reversing the order of the ...
where * denotes the entry-wise complex conjugate of a matrix. This results from applying to the definition of matrix product the fact that the conjugate of a sum is the sum of the conjugates of the summands and the conjugate of a product is the product of the conjugates of the factors.
As (+) = and (+) + =, the sum and the product of conjugate expressions do not involve the square root anymore. This property is used for removing a square root from a denominator , by multiplying the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the conjugate of the denominator (see Rationalisation ).